Base Léonore
Base Léonore, or the Léonore database, is a French database that
lists the records of the members of the National Order of the Legion
of Honor. The database lists the records of those inducted into the
Legion of Honor since its 1802 inception and died before 1977.[1]
As of January 2014[update], the database contained 390,000
records.[2]
References[edit]^ "Présentation de la base de données Léonore" (in French). Paris:
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. 13 November 2014.
Archived from the original on 16 March 2016.
^ "Léonore" (in French). Paris: Ministère de la Culture et de la
Communication. 1 January 2014. Archived from the original on 7
November 2014. External links[edit]Official website
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President Of France
The President of the French Republic (French: Président de la
République française, French pronunciation: ​[pʁezidɑ̃ də
la ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is the executive head of state of
FranceFrance in
the French Fifth Republic. In French terms, the presidency is the
supreme magistracy of the country.
The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, and
their relation with the Prime Minister and Cabinet, have over time
differed with the various French constitutions since 1848 (the final
end of the French Monarchy). The President of the French Republic is
also the ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, Grand Master of the Légion
d'honneur and the Ordre national du Mérite, and honorary proto-canon
of the
Basilica of St. John LateranBasilica of St
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Soviet Union
The
Soviet UnionSoviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з, tr.
Sovétsky Soyúz, IPA: [sɐˈvʲɛt͡skʲɪj
sɐˈjus] ( listen)), officially the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских
Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyúz
Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik, IPA: [sɐˈjus
sɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪsˈtʲitɕɪskʲɪx
rʲɪˈspublʲɪk] ( listen)), abbreviated as the USSR
(Russian: СССР, tr. SSSR), was a socialist state in
EurasiaEurasia that
existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national
Soviet republics,[a] its government and economy were highly
centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the
Communist Party with
MoscowMoscow as its capital in its largest republic,
the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah,[b] was a genocide during
World War IIWorld War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its
collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews,
around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and
1945.[c]
JewsJews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger
event involving the persecution and murder of other groups, including
in particular the Roma, ethnic Poles, and "incurably sick",[6] as well
as political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Soviet
prisoners of war.[7]
Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Hitler's rise
to power in 1933, the government passed laws to exclude
JewsJews from
civil society, most prominently the
Nuremberg LawsNuremberg Laws in 1935
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Communist
In political and social sciences, communism (from
LatinLatin communis,
"common, universal")[1][2] is the philosophical, social, political,
and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the
establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order
structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and
the absence of social classes, money[3][4] and the state.[5][6]
CommunismCommunism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly
include
MarxismMarxism and anarchism (anarcho-communism), as well as the
political ideologies grouped around both. All of these share the
analysis that the current order of society stems from its economic
system, capitalism; that in this system there are two major social
classes; that conflict between these two classes is the root of all
problems in society; and that this situation will ultimately be
resolved through a social revolution
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Eastern Europe
Eastern
EuropeEurope is the eastern part of the European continent. There is
no consensus on the precise area it covers, partly because the term
has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and
socioeconomic connotations. There are "almost as many definitions of
Eastern
EuropeEurope as there are scholars of the region".[1] A related
United NationsUnited Nations paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities
is essentially a social and cultural construct".[2]
One definition describes Eastern
EuropeEurope as a cultural entity: the
region lying in
EuropeEurope with the main characteristics consisting of
Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, Russian, and some Ottoman culture
influences.[3][4] Another definition was created during the Cold War
and used more or less synonymously with the term Eastern Bloc
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Thames TelevisionThames TelevisionThames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British
ITV television network serving
LondonLondon and surrounding area on weekdays
from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.
Formed as a joint company, it merged the television interests of
British Electric TractionBritish Electric Traction (trading as Associated-Rediffusion) owning
49%, and Associated British Picture Corporation—soon taken over by
EMI—owning 51%. It was both a broadcaster and a producer of
television programmes, making shows both for the local region it
covered and for networking nationally across the ITV regions
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French Indochina
French
IndochinaIndochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China)[1] (French:
Indochine française; Lao:
ສະຫະພັນອິນດູຈີນ; Khmer:
សហភាពឥណ្ឌូចិន; Vietnamese: Đông Dương
thuộc Pháp/東洋屬法, IPA: [ɗə̄wŋm jɨ̄əŋ tʰûək
fǎp], frequently abbreviated to Đông Pháp; Chinese:
法属印度支那), officially known as the Indochinese Union
(French: Union indochinoise)[2] after 1887 and the Indochinese
FederationFederation (French: Fédération indochinoise) after 1947, was a
grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia.
A grouping of the three Vietnamese regions of Tonkin (north), Annam
(centre), and Cochinchina (south) with
CambodiaCambodia was formed in 1887.
LaosLaos was added in 1893 and the leased Chinese territory of
GuangzhouwanGuangzhouwan in 1898
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Nuclear Weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive
force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a
combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). Both
bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small
amounts of matter. The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb
released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT
(84 TJ). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released
energy approximately equal to 10 million tons of TNT
(42 PJ).[1] A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than
2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can release energy equal to more than
1.2 million tons of TNT (5.0 PJ).[2] A nuclear device no
larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast,
fire, and radiation
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Krim BelkacemKrim BelkacemKrim Belkacem (in Kabyle: Krim Belqasem) (September 14, 1922, Aït
Yahia Moussa,
Tizi Ouzou ProvinceTizi Ouzou Province – October 18, 1970) was an
Algerian revolutionary fighter and politician.Contents1 Biography
2 Political views and Assassination
3 See also
4 ReferencesBiography[edit]
Krim was born in the village of
Aït Yahia MoussaAït Yahia Moussa (now in Tizi Ouzou
Province) in the Berber-speaking
KabylieKabylie region of Algeria. During the
Second World War, he joined the French Army, and was promoted corporal
in the First Algerian Sharpshooter Regiment, reputedly becoming an
excellent shot.[1] Demobilized on October 4, 1945, he returned to his
home village, where he took up a bureaucratic post
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Nuclear ProliferationNuclear proliferationNuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable
material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to
nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the
Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT. Proliferation has been opposed by
many nations with and without nuclear weapons, the governments of
which fear that more countries with nuclear weapons may increase the
possibility of nuclear warfare (up to and including the so-called
"countervalue" targeting of civilians with nuclear weapons),
de-stabilize international or regional relations, or infringe upon the
national sovereignty of states.
Four countries besides the five recognized Nuclear Weapons States have
acquired, or are presumed to have acquired, nuclear weapons: India,
Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel
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Holy See
The
Holy SeeHoly See (Italian: Santa Sede; Latin: Sancta Sedes; Ecclesiastical
Latin: [ˈsaŋkta ˈsedes]), also referred to as the See of Rome,
is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the
Catholic ChurchCatholic Church in Rome, the
episcopal see of the Pope, and an independent sovereign entity. It
serves as the central point of reference for the Catholic Church
everywhere and the focal point of communion due to its position as the
pre-eminent episcopal see of the universal church. Today, it is
responsible for the governance of all Catholics, organised in their
Particular Churches, Patriarchates and religious institutes.
As an independent sovereign entity, holding the
Vatican CityVatican City enclave
in
RomeRome as an independent state, it maintains diplomatic relations
with other states
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